ok the wild thing is, to the extent Schumer had any strategy at all, it was "sit back and let trump screw up until everyone hates him," but no, democrats dead set on swooping in and rescuing him from the consequences of his actions
Democrats stop voting for shitty Trump's nominees challenge (impossible).
this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone"
they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.
New cat. Air biscuits.
The Democratic party is as unpopular as it is because its own voters find the party feckless and weak.
"Bombing and starving civilians and stealing their land and resources. That's freedom, right?"
"Please use our chatbot."
Me, climbing into a cave full of forbidden ruins with no intention of speaking to anyone for hours: "Nope."
I don't want to talk to people in real life most of the time either. Why would I want this?
Very irritating to me when people are like "they make $100,000 but after expenses they basically make minimum wage." How much do you think people who make minimum wage have left over after expenses?
will remember jay as the person who deleted lexi alexander and link, worked hard to cut palestinians off from their one chance at survival, ignored the ongoing abuse of Black and trans users, and then when confronted about the whole thing said 'waffles'. and for that fugly no caesars shirt.
Electing this guy twice is really bad. But the real reason the US cannot be trusted is that it has been unable to impeach him.
Those of us who have Palestinians & Lebanese in our lives have been trying to make the supposed good party see this for years with no avail.
My friends' loved ones in Palestine are not less dead, tortured, detained, & homeless because the US president who helped Israel was a Democrat.
Might be time to bring back war criminal trials that include rich people this time
If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job
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he means "i'm bored and i want to play a different game now"
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Frankly other countries don't hate the U.S. enough.
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
This is what the polling looked like before the current war started btw
why have an opposition party when you can have a managed opposition party
Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social if you send more of my tax money to this, I will spend so much of my free time being in your ass about sending my tax money to bomb little girls trying to get an education. And I won't stop after they can your ass. You and Trump are no different if you do this.
Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading
As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.
None of the Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity, genocide included, would be possible without US support. The ongoing horrors are the fault of both Republicans and Democrats, and if Democrats want to be any different they can start by acknowledging Biden’s role in the Gaza genocide.
she would've been a bad president in the same way biden was a bad president: focused exclusively on policing, punishing, and silencing the left while lionizing "patriots" and fearing most of all accusations of being too progressive. biden bragged about doing more deportations than trump!
kamala harris would have been just as bad in the sense that she ran on beefing up cops, criminalizing protest, increasing funding for ICE, and committed to making the american military "the greatest fighting force in the world." then she would've lost re-election to an even more explicit fascist.
we are where we are because we've been disempowered by worse education, worse housing, worse jobs, by an economic system fine-tuned for absolute extraction with no human considerations. you cannot fix that with tax incentives. and tbh better education, better housing, better jobs are just the START.
I'd like to know if any of the people in both parties that liked to talk about "American exceptionalism" have experienced any self-awareness lately. Right, I didn't think so.
